Can't blame this one on Trump. This is the result of the last two idiots in office that decided to cancel the space shuttle program before we had a working replacement. Not that the shuttle was a shining example of success ether. But cancelling it before we had a working replacement was a stupid in a special order of magnitude.
What you're looking for if you want something with no traceability is called "cash". Last I heard, dollar bills and coins didn't have lists of IP addresses of people who used them permanently engraved upon them.
Even cash can be traced to some degree. Each bill has a unique serial attached to it. I'm positive each bill is tracked as it goes through the banking system. Once it hits the streets though all bets are off.
Of course we have heard rumors that the feds have attached RF tags to each bill. That they can tell how much and what individual bills you have in your pocket from stealth satellites in orbit. Personally, that is so much hogwash but I suppose if they wanted to track a single bill they could.
Sleeping with the bosses wife or girlfriend come to mind. Anything involving the words, "officer that isn't my cocaine." Getting drunk and mistaking the main server as a urinal
Fire arms and the disk drives from the corporate san.
Because after 3 days in a row of bitcoin stories I was interested to see if people where as tired as I was of them. Once I found out was in the minority I stopped posting and just started reading. I didn't post anything till someone, you, asked me a question.
Now here is some more useless rubbish. Why Dragonslicer? Of the twelve, with the exception of Stonecutter, I thought it was the lamest of Swords. Well as lame as a 1 meter long indestructible double sided straight razor forged by the gods can get.
An I'm not attacking your for your choice of Swords. It's nice to see that someone else doesn't think Shieldbreaker, Townsaver, or gods above Farslayer isn't the top dog.
There is a high likelihood of USA attacking Iran if she gotten her rightful appointed throne
I'm not sure if you are trolling or just an idiot. You really think a war with Iran would have been a good thing? The stupidity of that comment is just stunning. Please do the human race a favor and don't reproduce.
No it hasn't. Banks are backed by insurance and regulations. If a bank is hacked or robbed I don't lose any of my personal money. It will be covered by insurance. I also have other legal options open to me. You don't have that with bitcoin or exchanges. If a exchange collapses or hacked your money is gone, end of story.
The whole finance industry is run by sharks regardless of the currency they use. Right now the Federal Reserve is printing money and devaluing the money in your pocket as we speak. Do you trust that?
That would be problem if it was true. The Federal Reserve doesn't print money just to print money. In the US and other western countries the monetary supply is carefully controlled. Most new dollars being printed are being used to replace a old dollar taken out of circulation. They do print a little overage to make up for destroyed and horded bills but that is a not a major problem. For a example of what happens when the government prints money with out control look no farther than Zimbabwe.
In fact the federal reserve as been ordering pretty much the same number of bills over the last 10 years. There are some spikes and dips depending on the year but it all seems to average out. Even when they order more bills it doesn't mean those bills go in the circulation. If you read the following article you will see there are no $2 bills ordered in 2017 or for 2018. That is because there are enough still in storage from the 2016 bill run to cover those years.
You know, I keep hearing how bitcoin is supposed to be this secure system. But yet it seems a new exchange is hacked every week and a assload of bitcoins is stolen. So my question is "how can i trust a currency that can't even secure its own financial hubs?"
Net neutrality has a Storied history in the U.S. There have been assorted Congressional bills proposed, but the problems are still partisan
Truth, but there is something different this time than the last times. Before today only nerds knew or really cared about net neutrality. Basically, us. Not really much of a force to influence the troop of baboons in Washington.
But now my 70 year old father asked me about net neutrality and he seemed concerned. My daughter and her friends are also asking questions. These are people that wouldn't even give net neutrality a second thought a few years ago. It has gone from a topic only a few knew about to a hot button issue thanks to social media. Everyone is talking about it.
I experienced something like that. At first didn't hear anything until I looked at the poll below where it said some people heard the thumping. Then when I looked back at the GIF, not only did I hear it, it sort of felt it in my ears.
I could see where this would be a problem. Hopefully, this will led to cheap wireless as you said.
In another post I agree with another poster that our best bet would be to contact congress critters and begin the god given right to bitch at them. Of course I have plenty of confidence will do the right thing. Just as I firmly believe that Santa will leave a wrapped sus Volans under my tree.
I do believe that you are correct. I think we can conclude that pressuring the FCC is a lost cause. At least until a new administration is elected in 2020. Putting pressure on congress to do the right thing is one option we have.
Wait, Wait. I know what some of you are thinking. Congress doing the right thing. Well I was reading a story the other day where a French scientist is working on creating a avian sus scrofa domesticus. So it could happen.
But another option that we have to take into account is we can put direct pressure on isp's. Once we become aware of a isp being a problem let them know our displeasure. Refusing to pay bills and just plan old boycotting their services are two options.
If net neutrality fails it will just mean all the smart people can pack up their shit and start a new internet
Unfortunately, this isn't an option. The internet started because the US government need a dependable way to help end all life on earth if the USSR decided it wanted to get the ball rolling. With out this issue then the internet probably wouldn't have been built. Then in a moment of rare sanity the US government decided to let everyone play in their sandbox.
To create a new internet you will need to establish right of way for the cables you will be buying. That will require many legal hurdles to over come. Then there is the cost of buying and labeling the cables. I think the cost to do this would probably be in the hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars. You will have to create a whole new infrastructure for it.
An if you are thinking of piggy backing your new internet on the existing infrastructure. Well that would defeat the purpose of a new system. All they would do is treat the traffic of this "new" internet like any other traffic.
Of course you can always go back to the store and forward system of UUCP.
Except that it wouldn't. Bitcoin isn't a legal currency anywhere. What it can be best described as a commodity, like gold or silver. Outside of a limited circle of users if the entire bitcoin market was to implode I doubt it would be more than a quick story on evening news.
I think we are done here. I've explained to you the problem as simple as I can with out actually insulting other peoples intelligence. You simply refuse the see the problem.
Actually, I'm going to dial down the enthusiasm I've had in these posts and kind of agree with you. I installed the latest update to windows 10 and now my external BR drive won't work.
I didn't ignore your point you idiot, but it's clear from your responses you have never installed or managed a enterprise level environment. You may have installed your precious Ubuntu on desktops in a small shop. Here let me spell it out for you.
Most distributions are binary compatible. Which simply means what can run on one can be made to run on another. What is not compatible is support. There is that word again, support. It is all the rage in big business shops. I would suggest you learn what it means.
Lets give an example, Oracle. With some know how I imagine any decent sysadmin, that leaves you out, could make it run on Ubuntu. But for argument let say you get it to run on your pet Ubuntu, and all is good for awhile.
Then one day your Oracle goes down and management give you the order to call support. So you call support only to be told that your OS isn't a supported OS. Ubuntu isn't a supported under Oracle.
An there you are. Your company is losing thousands of dollars every minute and you have to tell management that you won't be getting any support. When they ask why this is they then find out you installed there multi thousand dollar database on a unsupported OS, which leads to you getting your dumb ass fired. An rightly so.
You and people like you are part of the problem. You insist that your little linux disturbutions are all the same when they are not. Companies don't support every brand of linux out there. There are way to many disubutions for them too. An that is the problem I pointed out.
But yet here fools like you go, picking your pet linux distro and damn the rest of us who actually know what we are doing. Do you know how many times as a contracter I have walked into a shop and been told to rip out all the linux boxes and convert them to windows because some idiot like you screwed the pooch?
Most managers don't know ubuntu from fedora, and really don't care. When they hear Microsoft Windows they nod and smile because they know that name. Now we are at the point where we can sell a known distro like Redhat Enterprise. But when you try to sell them some weird ass distro, then it just gives all of Linux a bad name.
I still miss my Amiga 3000. I love the look of that machine; and the feel of the keyboard. The freaking control key was in the right spot! To this day I still hit the caps lock key when I mean control.
I had lots of computer before my Amiga 3000. A C-64, C-128, and even an A500. But the Amiga 3000 was what I consider to be my real workstation computer.
I had one of the first A3000's too. With the kickstart on the HD. I never got around to buying a proper ROM kickstart for it. Didn't see the need.
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Can't blame this one on Trump. This is the result of the last two idiots in office that decided to cancel the space shuttle program before we had a working replacement. Not that the shuttle was a shining example of success ether. But cancelling it before we had a working replacement was a stupid in a special order of magnitude.
But didn't you hear about Trump's grand plan? To do more, with less!!! Christ on a crutch, even I'm getting tired of this clown.
What you're looking for if you want something with no traceability is called "cash". Last I heard, dollar bills and coins didn't have lists of IP addresses of people who used them permanently engraved upon them.
Even cash can be traced to some degree. Each bill has a unique serial attached to it. I'm positive each bill is tracked as it goes through the banking system. Once it hits the streets though all bets are off.
Of course we have heard rumors that the feds have attached RF tags to each bill. That they can tell how much and what individual bills you have in your pocket from stealth satellites in orbit. Personally, that is so much hogwash but I suppose if they wanted to track a single bill they could.
This is going to be epic....
Sleeping with the bosses wife or girlfriend come to mind. Anything involving the words, "officer that isn't my cocaine." Getting drunk and mistaking the main server as a urinal
Fire arms and the disk drives from the corporate san.
posting to facebook while intoxicated.
Because after 3 days in a row of bitcoin stories I was interested to see if people where as tired as I was of them. Once I found out was in the minority I stopped posting and just started reading. I didn't post anything till someone, you, asked me a question.
Now here is some more useless rubbish. Why Dragonslicer? Of the twelve, with the exception of Stonecutter, I thought it was the lamest of Swords. Well as lame as a 1 meter long indestructible double sided straight razor forged by the gods can get.
An I'm not attacking your for your choice of Swords. It's nice to see that someone else doesn't think Shieldbreaker, Townsaver, or gods above Farslayer isn't the top dog.
An the same could be said of you posting a whiny complaint about a "whiny" complaint?
An Dragonslicer was a one trick pony. Sightblinder was where it was at.
There is a high likelihood of USA attacking Iran if she gotten her rightful appointed throne
I'm not sure if you are trolling or just an idiot. You really think a war with Iran would have been a good thing? The stupidity of that comment is just stunning. Please do the human race a favor and don't reproduce.
Show of hands if you are tired of the bitcoin stories?
Oh good grief. I believe it because its true. Please take the tin foil hat off and come out of the basement.
An I looked that up. That is nothing more than another tool to control the economy and keep things from getting out of hand.
This has always been the case
No it hasn't. Banks are backed by insurance and regulations. If a bank is hacked or robbed I don't lose any of my personal money. It will be covered by insurance. I also have other legal options open to me. You don't have that with bitcoin or exchanges. If a exchange collapses or hacked your money is gone, end of story.
The whole finance industry is run by sharks regardless of the currency they use. Right now the Federal Reserve is printing money and devaluing the money in your pocket as we speak. Do you trust that?
That would be problem if it was true. The Federal Reserve doesn't print money just to print money. In the US and other western countries the monetary supply is carefully controlled. Most new dollars being printed are being used to replace a old dollar taken out of circulation. They do print a little overage to make up for destroyed and horded bills but that is a not a major problem. For a example of what happens when the government prints money with out control look no farther than Zimbabwe.
In fact the federal reserve as been ordering pretty much the same number of bills over the last 10 years. There are some spikes and dips depending on the year but it all seems to average out. Even when they order more bills it doesn't mean those bills go in the circulation. If you read the following article you will see there are no $2 bills ordered in 2017 or for 2018. That is because there are enough still in storage from the 2016 bill run to cover those years.
https://www.federalreserve.gov...
You know, I keep hearing how bitcoin is supposed to be this secure system. But yet it seems a new exchange is hacked every week and a assload of bitcoins is stolen. So my question is "how can i trust a currency that can't even secure its own financial hubs?"
Bullshit!.
Normally I would try to justify my comment, but I think my statement covers it just fine.
Net neutrality has a Storied history in the U.S. There have been assorted Congressional bills proposed, but the problems are still partisan
Truth, but there is something different this time than the last times. Before today only nerds knew or really cared about net neutrality. Basically, us. Not really much of a force to influence the troop of baboons in Washington.
But now my 70 year old father asked me about net neutrality and he seemed concerned. My daughter and her friends are also asking questions. These are people that wouldn't even give net neutrality a second thought a few years ago. It has gone from a topic only a few knew about to a hot button issue thanks to social media. Everyone is talking about it.
Hey, I guess facebook is good for something .
Yeah. That is perfect description of what I was experiencing. Good job.
I experienced something like that. At first didn't hear anything until I looked at the poll below where it said some people heard the thumping. Then when I looked back at the GIF, not only did I hear it, it sort of felt it in my ears.
Weird.
I could see where this would be a problem. Hopefully, this will led to cheap wireless as you said.
In another post I agree with another poster that our best bet would be to contact congress critters and begin the god given right to bitch at them. Of course I have plenty of confidence will do the right thing. Just as I firmly believe that Santa will leave a wrapped sus Volans under my tree.
We need to redirect our efforts elsewhere
I do believe that you are correct. I think we can conclude that pressuring the FCC is a lost cause. At least until a new administration is elected in 2020. Putting pressure on congress to do the right thing is one option we have.
Wait, Wait. I know what some of you are thinking. Congress doing the right thing. Well I was reading a story the other day where a French scientist is working on creating a avian sus scrofa domesticus. So it could happen.
But another option that we have to take into account is we can put direct pressure on isp's. Once we become aware of a isp being a problem let them know our displeasure. Refusing to pay bills and just plan old boycotting their services are two options.
If net neutrality fails it will just mean all the smart people can pack up their shit and start a new internet
Unfortunately, this isn't an option. The internet started because the US government need a dependable way to help end all life on earth if the USSR decided it wanted to get the ball rolling. With out this issue then the internet probably wouldn't have been built. Then in a moment of rare sanity the US government decided to let everyone play in their sandbox.
To create a new internet you will need to establish right of way for the cables you will be buying. That will require many legal hurdles to over come. Then there is the cost of buying and labeling the cables. I think the cost to do this would probably be in the hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars. You will have to create a whole new infrastructure for it.
An if you are thinking of piggy backing your new internet on the existing infrastructure. Well that would defeat the purpose of a new system. All they would do is treat the traffic of this "new" internet like any other traffic.
Of course you can always go back to the store and forward system of UUCP.
Increasing the battery density probably won't help either, as manufacturers will again make thinner phones instead of increasing capacity.
To which 90% of most users will stick in a fat ass case so they can get a better grip on the paper thin phone.....
Except that it wouldn't. Bitcoin isn't a legal currency anywhere. What it can be best described as a commodity, like gold or silver. Outside of a limited circle of users if the entire bitcoin market was to implode I doubt it would be more than a quick story on evening news.
I think we are done here. I've explained to you the problem as simple as I can with out actually insulting other peoples intelligence. You simply refuse the see the problem.
Again, stop being part of the problem.
Actually, I'm going to dial down the enthusiasm I've had in these posts and kind of agree with you. I installed the latest update to windows 10 and now my external BR drive won't work.
So yeah. I see your point now.
I didn't ignore your point you idiot, but it's clear from your responses you have never installed or managed a enterprise level environment. You may have installed your precious Ubuntu on desktops in a small shop. Here let me spell it out for you.
Most distributions are binary compatible. Which simply means what can run on one can be made to run on another. What is not compatible is support. There is that word again, support. It is all the rage in big business shops. I would suggest you learn what it means.
Lets give an example, Oracle. With some know how I imagine any decent sysadmin, that leaves you out, could make it run on Ubuntu. But for argument let say you get it to run on your pet Ubuntu, and all is good for awhile.
Then one day your Oracle goes down and management give you the order to call support. So you call support only to be told that your OS isn't a supported OS. Ubuntu isn't a supported under Oracle.
An there you are. Your company is losing thousands of dollars every minute and you have to tell management that you won't be getting any support. When they ask why this is they then find out you installed there multi thousand dollar database on a unsupported OS, which leads to you getting your dumb ass fired. An rightly so.
You and people like you are part of the problem. You insist that your little linux disturbutions are all the same when they are not. Companies don't support every brand of linux out there. There are way to many disubutions for them too. An that is the problem I pointed out.
But yet here fools like you go, picking your pet linux distro and damn the rest of us who actually know what we are doing. Do you know how many times as a contracter I have walked into a shop and been told to rip out all the linux boxes and convert them to windows because some idiot like you screwed the pooch?
Most managers don't know ubuntu from fedora, and really don't care. When they hear Microsoft Windows they nod and smile because they know that name. Now we are at the point where we can sell a known distro like Redhat Enterprise. But when you try to sell them some weird ass distro, then it just gives all of Linux a bad name.
Stop being part of the problem.
I still miss my Amiga 3000. I love the look of that machine; and the feel of the keyboard. The freaking control key was in the right spot! To this day I still hit the caps lock key when I mean control.
I had lots of computer before my Amiga 3000. A C-64, C-128, and even an A500. But the Amiga 3000 was what I consider to be my real workstation computer.
I had one of the first A3000's too. With the kickstart on the HD. I never got around to buying a proper ROM kickstart for it. Didn't see the need.